March 30, 2017

Kamala Harris is extremely impressive.

She is asking about cyber-warfare and is it the way wars will be fought in the 21st century?

March 22, 2017

NY TIMES OP-ED- Calling On a Few Good Men

Thomas L. Friedman MARCH 22, 2017


Memo To: Secretary of Defense James Mattis, National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, C.I.A. Director Mike Pompeo and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

Dear Sirs, I am writing you today as the five adults with the most integrity in the Trump administration. Mattis, McMaster and Kelly, you all served our nation as generals in battle. Pompeo, you graduated first in your class at West Point and served as a cavalry officer. Tillerson, you ran one of America’s largest companies.

I am writing you directly because I believe you are the last “few good men” who can stand up and reverse the moral rot that has infected the Trump administration from the top.

The last time our country faced such a cancer on the presidency, the Republican Party’s leadership stood up and put country before party to get to the truth. But today’s G.O.P. is a pale imitation of that party. With a few exceptions, it has declared moral bankruptcy and abdicated its responsibility to draw any red lines for President Trump.

To begin, I ask those of you who honored our country as military officers how you would have reacted if your commanding officer had charged his predecessor with a high crime that violated his constitutional oath — and then a few weeks later this charge was exposed as false by the top military judge advocate?

And Secretary Tillerson, how would your former corporate board have reacted if a top executive at Exxon Mobil had accused a predecessor of a major act of malfeasance and the F.B.I. then told the board the claims were false?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/opinion/calling-on-a-few-good-men.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0


Worth a read

March 13, 2017

Impeachara

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March 3, 2017

Welcome Video - SNL

March 2, 2017

irobot - im allergic to bullshit

Given the news about Sessions saying he didn't discuss the campaign with the Russians I thought this was relevant.

March 2, 2017

Our new national anthem.

February 23, 2017

Why I love a country that once betrayed me- George Takei

This is from a few years ago but thought it was relevant given recent events.

February 23, 2017

Sign this Whitehouse petition: Remove Steve Bannon from National Security Council

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-steve-bannon-national-security-council-7

February 20, 2017

PUTIN STARTING TO WONDER IF HIS PUPPETS ARE SMART ENOUGH TO PULL THIS OFF

MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report)—Russian President Vladimir Putin is “starting to get concerned” that the puppets he installed in the executive branch of the U.S. government “might not be up to the task at hand,” sources confirmed on Tuesday.

According to the sources, the flameout of the national-security adviser Michael Flynn was only the most recent event that has caused Putin to wonder if the figureheads he propelled into office are “just too dim-witted” to serve the goals of the Russian Federation.

“When you choose a puppet, you’re looking for a sweet spot,” one source close to Putin said. “You want to choose someone who’s dumb enough to be manipulated, but not so dumb that he can’t find the light switches.”

“Increasingly, it looks like we missed that sweet spot,” the source said.


http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/putin-starting-to-wonder-if-his-puppets-are-smart-enough-to-pull-this-off

February 14, 2017

So no more General Ripper